Social Work and Sexuality: Working with Lesbians and Gay Men

This important textbook offers clear and concise discussion of the key theoretical and practical issues that sexuality raises for social work. It examines how lesbian and gay politics have impacted on professional knowledge and practice and looks at the questions faced by social workers who identify as lesbian or gay. It discusses the importance of anti-discriminatory practice with lesbian and gay clients in a range of practice settings, looking specifically at work with children and families, vulnerable adults and offenders.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Competent Anti-Discriminatory
Social Work Practice
Placing the Debate within its Social/Political Context
Lesbians and Gay
Men in Social Work
Social Work Knowledge
Revisited Social Work: Organisation and Context
Children and Families
Social Work with Adults
Social Work and Probation
Practice with Offenders
Concluding Thoughts
Relevant Organisations
References
Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Helen Cosis Brown

Zusammenfassung

This important textbook offers clear and concise discussion of the key theoretical and practical issues that sexuality raises for social work. It examines how lesbian and gay politics have impacted on professional knowledge and practice and looks at the questions faced by social workers who identify as lesbian or gay. It discusses the importance of anti-discriminatory practice with lesbian and gay clients in a range of practice settings, looking specifically at work with children and families, vulnerable adults and offenders.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Helen Cosis Brown, Helen Cosis Brown, Helen Cosis-Brown
• Verlag: Springer Nature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.1998
• Seiten: 166
• Abmessung: 139 mm x 218 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 239 g
• Serien: Practical Social Work Series; Practical Social Work Series; Practical Social Work
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung